The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  • -- Walter Bagehot 沃尔特·巴格霍特

最好的历史不过是伦勃朗的艺术;它生动地揭示了某些特定的原因,那些最好的和最伟大的原因;它把其余的一切都留在阴影里,看不见。

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

就像宇宙中没有基本能量的损失一样,任何思想或行动都有它的影响,无论是现在的还是最终的,看得见的还是看不见的,感觉到的还是感觉不到的。

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

少数人的苦难是多么鲜明,而人民是多么稀少,两次世界大战中无数无名百姓的苦难是多么被数字模糊了。

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

顺便说一句,我有一个伟大的家庭,但你需要找到一些人,他们能从你身上挖掘出一些东西,否则你可能看不到。

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

你就像那个把影子留在抽屉里的女孩,但当她去拿的时候,影子却不见了。

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

失去和拥有,死亡和生命是一体的,没有太阳的地方就不会有阴影。

Every sport has its own cast of characters.

每项运动都有自己的角色。

Cast is everything.

演员就是一切。